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<< Our Photo Pages >> St. Margaret's Well (Wereham) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Norfolk

Submitted by HOLYWELL on Tuesday, 26 February 2008  Page Views: 8030

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St. Margaret's Well (Wereham)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 6.8 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Norfolk Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 Nearest Village: Wereham
Map Ref: TF6801
Latitude: 52.580856N  Longitude: 0.478091E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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St. Margaret's Well (Wereham)
St. Margaret's Well (Wereham) submitted by HOLYWELL : St. Margaret's well with its obelisk (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well in Norfolk. According to Domesday, the name of this settlement derives from: ‘a run of water issuing from a pond in the west of town.’ This may refer to the St Margaret's Well, , which is west of St Margaret's church, and is accounted by historian Chambers (1829 ):

‘In times of popery, the people diverted themselves on that saints day with cakes and ale, music and dancing; alms and offering were brought; and vows made : all this was called well worship.’

Thus it would appear to have been a site of some local importance. Easily found on the side of the village pond. It arises beneath a small obelisk into a circular stone lined pool

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St. Margaret's Well (Wereham)
St. Margaret's Well (Wereham) submitted by rogerkread : A view across the village pond, fed in part by the well. (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. Margaret's Well (Wereham)
St. Margaret's Well (Wereham) submitted by HOLYWELL : The basin into which St. Margaret's spring flows into at Wereham (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
TF6800 : Into the fog by Vic
by Vic
©2007(licence)
TF6700 : Near Willow Farm on Wereham Row in Norfolk by Richard Humphrey
by Richard Humphrey
©2017(licence)
TF6701 : Lammas Meadow Lane in Wereham, Norfolk by Richard Humphrey
by Richard Humphrey
©2017(licence)
TF6700 : Reed filled dike, Wereham Row in Norfolk by Richard Humphrey
by Richard Humphrey
©2017(licence)
TF6801 : Field by Lynn Road, Wereham by David Howard
by David Howard
©2021(licence)

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Re: St. Margaret's Well (Wereham) by willowman1 on Sunday, 24 June 2018
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Actually, this isn't St. Margaret's Well at all. This 'obelisk' was erected in 1849 by Abraham Sewell as a fountain, using the spring water that arises here to feed the pond.

The actual medieval well (filled in by the early 20th century) was on the opposite side of the pond, at TF6806601695, and is now beneath the road surface of St. Margaret's Hill, about 10m east of the village sign.
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